America’s distance
from Eurasia places it on the wrong side of the world from the “cockpit of
history,” a rapidly integrating Eurasian super-continent that is shaping its
own future independently of the Western Hemisphere and the U.S. The
technology that is driving this epochal transformation is one of the most
traditional: railways. Today’s Eurasian railways are connecting East and
West at unprecedented speeds.

This
lecture by Parag Khanna will provide an account of how these new infrastructures are rapidly
altering the demographic, commercial, and geopolitical balance of power in the
world's strategic heartland.

Parag Khanna is a leading geo-strategist, world traveler and author. He
is director of the Hybrid Reality Institute. His current affiliations
include: senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, visiting
fellow at LSE IDEAS, senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign
Relations, and senior fellow at the Singapore Institute of International
Affairs. He is author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012) and the international bestsellers How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
(2008). In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential
People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart
List".